384 CATALOGUE OF 



Blackish brown, brownish cinereous beneath. Palpi slightly 

 ascending, much shorter than the breadth of the head ; third joint 

 extremely short. Thorax and fore wings very minutely speckled 

 with cinereous. Fore wings acute, with two very large cinereous 

 patches ; one on the middle of the interior border, the other on the 

 hind part of the exterior border, partly bordered with black ; a chaly- 

 beous tinge and cinereous points and oblique black streaklets along 

 the costa, which is nearly straight ; exterior border straight, slightly 

 oblique. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. North America. From Mr. Carter's collection. 



141. Geapholita discigerana. 



Mas. Alba; palpi fimbriati, caput no?t superantes, articulo So 

 vix conspicuo ; alee anticce extus cervince aut cinerece, striga 

 postica lata interiore strigaque antica obliqua fuscis, guttis 

 quatuor costalibus exterioribus trigonis lineolisque duabus 

 discalibus nigris ; postica cinerece. 



Male. White. Palpi porrect, fringed, not extending beyond 

 the head ; third joint hardly visible. Antennae smooth. Disk of 

 the thorax brown. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind 

 wings. Fore wings acute, fawn-coloured or cinereous exteriorly, 

 with a broad brown streak along the basal part of the interior border, 

 and with a brown streak extending obliquely from the middle of 

 the costa to the disk ; four triangular black dots along the exterior 

 part of the costa ; first, second and third each accompanied by an 

 elongated black point ; fourth apical ; two little black discal lines 

 near the end of the costal streak ; costa and exterior border almost 

 straight, the latter slightly oblique. Hind wings cinereous. Length 

 of the body 2\ — 3 lines ; of the wings 8 — 10 lines. 



Allied to G. lundiana and to G. derasana. 



a — d. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



142. Geapholita conflexana. 



Mas. Fuse a ; palpi subtus late fimbriate, caput noh superantes, 

 articulo So minimo ; alee anticce vitta obliqua undulata stri- 

 gisque tribus obliquis costalibus exterioribus argenteis, costa 

 basi cinerea nigricojite punctata ; posticce cinerece. 



Nearly alied to G. Myrtillana. Male. — Brown, cinereous 

 beneath. Palpi porrect, broadly fringed beneath, not extending 



